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Occupy Wall Street, Ten Years After

In 2011, Occupy organizers spoke with In These Times about challenges and opportunities. Ten years later, we look back on the decentralized, grassroots uprising.

In These Times Editors

Viewpoint

Occupy Wall Street Trained a Generation in Class War

How OWS shaped a decade of dramatic protests and why it has run its course.

Arun Gupta

Massachusetts May Become First State to Send Money to Low-Income Countries to Deal With Climate Change

A groundbreaking bill would provide funding from U.S. residents to help developing nations respond to the climate crisis.

Rachel M. Cohen

Dispatch

A Lead Problem Worse Than Flint's

Hundreds of thousands of lead service lines in Wisconsin are a threat to public health, and communities of color are particularly vulnerable.

Susan Shain

Labor

Talking to Bourbon Workers on the Picket Line

A conversation with Matt Aubrey, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23D.

Maximillian Alvarez

The Filibuster Is Now the Only Thing Standing In the Way of Voting Rights

The new Freedom to Vote Act is backed by the entire Democratic caucus. But with full Republican opposition, passing it will require changing or abolishing the filibuster.

Jessica Corbett

Labor

An Exhibit of Worker Power: Art Institute of Chicago Workers Join the Museum Union Wave

Employees at the historic museum are organizing for pay fairness and transparency, part of a growing movement to unionize cultural institutions across the country.

Jeff Schuhrke

Feature

U.S. Says It Supports a Covid Vaccine Patent Waiver, But Document Reveals It Is Dragging Feet at WTO

Global health advocates say a patent waiver would ease access to Covid vaccines, but the U.S. declined to support as-is a proposal to greenlight the waiver, a summary of a September 14 WTO meeting shows.

Sarah Lazare

ViewpointRural America

Welcome to the Pyrocene

Our society’s appetite for one kind of burning—fossil fuel combustion—has thrust us into a new Fire Age that is reshaping the Earth.

Stephen Pyne